We are a 111M guild and are slowly transitioning from mostly T4s with the occasional T5 to mostly T5 with the occasional T4 (to avoid losing tickets). We went from taking 2d/phase for T5 on the first raid, to 1d/phase now. Most of our officers use teams suggested by various guides: JTR res, Thrawn lead troopers, called assist jawa eng, classic rebs, zAsajj lead NS, zVader or nil lead sith. Most of the other teams with g12 phoenix, Wampa or hYoda are out of reach for the majority of my guild.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of motivation to do the raid in our guild. Some are motivated by the higher scores acheived by buffing up anti-STR teams, and others are motivated by the guild coin.
As for the negative comments I've heard from my guild:
P1 is too frustrating and requires too many retreats due to RNG
The raid rewards are not worth the effort, why bother?
I don't have the teams required and it'll take a long time to get them ready
The health is too high for a T5 raid.
Debuffs don't work, half my teams are useless
Some of those I agree with (1,2,4) while others I sympathize with but tend to brush off as general whining. But regardless, we've noticed participation is falling off despite the fact that we can do T5 almost twice as fast now. Tactics have improved, but interest has waned.
As for what I like about the raid personally, P2 and P3 are a lot of fun. P4 can be fun at points if you have the right team (solo Traya is just annoying). P1 could use some tweaking so the deck isn't stacked so heavily against us. A challenge is good, but it's a bit too stacked right now. We can clear it without much trouble, but literally no one enjoys doing it.
And finally - stop rewarding me furnaces! I have nearly 600 and <50 of all other rancor raid gear. I always get furnace salvage drop in my sith rewards, and 75% of the time in rancor (been tracking this for months now). If the gear is weighted, please remove the weighting.
Capital Games Team
